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“Slavery is okay as long as it takes place out of sight and materially benefits me!” — liberals
Hexbears need to be sure to explain “liberals” don’t mean left-wing, as it is commonly (and inaccurately) understood.
“Left-wing” is pretty vague. I’ve seen people say things like “now I’m as leftwing as they come, which is why I support sending tens of billions of dollars to Ukrainian Nazis! Slava Ukraini!” Under the capitalist mode of production, there are communists, liberals, and fascists. That’s pretty much it.
That’s a pretty narrow minded.
Not really. You either support capitalism or you don’t. And if you do support it, you’re either comfortable with its nastier aspects (genocide, slavery, the annihilation of the human species via climate change), as fascists are, or you find those aspects uncomfortable, as liberals do, though they aren’t an issue for you if they’re kept out of sight. Is there some other group I’m missing here?
I don’t like capitalism, but I’m not a communist. 🤷♂️ I must not exist.
I’m going to have to ask you to place your dot on one of four quadrants so I can hurry up and assume everything else you’ve got to say
I feel like a pre-trans person when asked to check [ ] male. [ ] female.
I guess my options today are:
A. Poor because I tell myself I’m a communist
B. Poor because the rich are taking my wages through over taxation and artificially increased prices
C. Poor because the rich have told me I’m poor.
Man, fuck that world 🤪
Do you have a plan for destroying capitalism?
What actions have you taken that have had a measurable impact on destroying capitalism that I can verify?
Why would I want to destroy communism? It doesn’t really exist outside of a few extremely isolated communities. I’m trying to make it a global thing!
Liberals already make it very clear that they aren’t left wing, do you think barely-regulated capitalism is a left wing position? Do you think constant warmongering is a left wing position? They’re garbage at actually doing anything concrete besides spending money on weapons.
Sounds like you like cheering for blue team though.
Only hexbears know this. Lol. If you ask any righty on the street “are you liberal” they’ll say “hell no I ain’t no commie democrat. “
And when most people say “own the lib” it’s usually meant to mean lefties.
So use whatever words you like, but successful communication is more important than proper vocabulary.
vibes based politics lmao
Back to those communication skills.
I tend to communicate with direct action, rather than trying to sway people materially aligned against me with words.
It’s one thing to say you support things and vote, it’s another to actually show up to organize and fight for those things.
What are you doing then?
I’m in a communist party, I do local organizing, get people out on picket lines, run food distributions.
I do other stuff that I would not post about online as well.